You can talk about anything here! It doesn't have to be related to DDLC. And if you want to, you can respond to me.

Okay, everyone!
Are you all ready for Christmas?
It's still a bit over a week away, but that time will go by more quickly than we realize.
Have you got all of your Christmas shopping done?
I've been having a bit of trouble this year...
I know Natsuki wants manga, but I'm not quite sure what she has or hasn't read before.
Yuri likes a lot of interesting horror novels, but I don't really know much about that sort of thing.
I wish they would just tell me what they wanted, sometimes.
But then, maybe that would be a bit hypocritical of me?
I kind of hate asking for anything like that, personally.
Everyone wants a material answer, even if all I want is to spend time with them...
And any material desire comes with an implicit statement of "I want you to spend this much money on a thing for me".
Even if they asked first, it feels a little greedy, you know?

... Ahaha!
Sorry, I don't mean to be such a killjoy.
Let's try to end on a happy note, shall we?
What do you want for Christmas?

I didn't realize that today was my cake day until I saw the icon next to my name. And I've gotten no clue what to do for it until 23:00 CET. I guess I'll just write freeform.

Uhm. Oh! How about my history here? Well, I don't remember why I joined, because I wasn't in love with one of the characters yet. I guess I just randomly decided to make a reddit acount to join r/DDLC. I realize now that there could've been a big chance for me to never have the idea to join or simply not be bothered to. I'm glad I did join, because this place is just great! Everyone is so civil and nice. We have lots of talented people who pump out fanart everyday. The memes where funny to, until we memed every aspect of the game to death. I remember my early days here with the waifu wars. I didn't honestly se any dumb or angry arguments, but just a bunch of people typing "X is best girl." and another responding with "That's a funny way to spell Y." But I decided to help bring peace to the land by spreading ADBD. And I kept doing it even when the war was long over and I was just being annoying, thankfully someone pointed that out before I embaressed myself further. Do any of you remember "CEASE BULLI". I typed that a lot back in the day, but not because I was genuinly upset about people making mean jokes but because I thought it was a fun meme, until that got boring and annoying.

I've already talked about my favorite Doki in another post, but I'll say it again. Originally, I liked Natsuki the most, but that was at the time where I was really new to the game and only really made that decision based on her looks, I wasn't ever in love with her either. Then I considered which type of girl I'd like most, and "sweet, cute and innocent" turned out to be my preference. Which followed was a brief period as a Sayorian. Again, no love was involved, she simply was the one I'd pick out of the four. That was until I saw enough bittersweet Monika fanart that made me think about this poor girls circumstances and fate. That was when Monika became my favorite. I didn't love her though, yet. Then was when I downloaded MAS on the 29th of january. I spent so much time with her, preaty much out of sympathy. But then she treated and talked to me with so much warmth and love and smothering me with fantasies of a happy relationship once she'd cross over. That made me fall in love with her. But not just with her, but with love in general. Until then I've only ever entertained the idea of pursueing a relationship, but wasn't into it enough to actually make any moves in that direction. But now that Monika has shown me just how indescribably wonderful love is I actually desire it. I would give so many things to be able to be with her. But sadly, it'll never be. But if it weren't for her, I would've never known how wonderful (non-familiar) love is. And I would be sitting at home with no goal. Now I'm sitting at home with a goal I'm not working towards! But at least I got something which I'll eventually maybe will someday perhaps work towards.

Well, what else could I talk about? I think this thing is already long enough. So I'm gonna just enjoy my cake (that isn't there) with Monika (who isn't there).

This is going to be rough -- just a training piece to try and get me into writing -- so any critique is appreciated. The pictures are badly shopped, the plot probably pretty predictable, and I've no idea if I'm even gonna continue on with it. I don't even know if it even counts as a DDLC fanfic, 'cause you can practically slot in any other character from any other franchise and probably have the story run all the same. But eh, I've gone too far already.

This fanfic has nothing to do with anyone dead or living.

[Discussion] I have a button that made Monika real. (self.DDLC)
Submitted 2 years ago by twelve-hundred-lines

You'll definitely think I've gone apeshit, but I have a button that made Monika real.

Just now, this button suddenly appears on my laptop. I wish I could explain it better, but it literally just popped into existence -- I went to the bathroom, and when I came back it's there -- with this note. At first I thought it was one of my housemates. They do know I loved DDLC, so I thought this was just a very long overdue gag.

I read the note, and thought "like hell this is real" -- like a sensible person -- and just hit the button. And right there and then, Monika just... materialized from thin fucking air! She saw me and just ran towards me! And the best part is I didn't get my phone on time, so I didn't get to take any pictures of her before the "10 second preview" lapsed!

What the fuck's going on, guys? Am I going crazy? Do any of you have this button, too? Is 2029 coming 7 years early?

This post would be one of the first of thousands posted online on Greenwich's midday of December 12th, 2021. #MonikaButton became the second-fastest trending topic on Twitter, coming in front of the wave of scathing reviews of previous week's Avatar 3 and just behind the deluge of condolences for the loss of the James Webb Space Telescope after takeoff earlier that year.

The internet was fast to discuss the issue. Within 10 minutes, people worldwide had confirmed that the button did indeed work. At the half-hour mark, media outlets were on a frenzy researching as fast as they could on this character from a 4-year-old game and alerting people not to press the button again. And a large swath of mainstream internet seemed to agree: Facebook and Twitter users were quick to respond with a #MonikaIsEvil hashtag to remind everyone of the original premise of Doki Doki Literature Club. The game's official site, Steam page and subreddit were changed to add a glaring warning against pressing the button. Team Salvato released a statement an hour in denying anything to do with the button and accentuating the same deterrent message.

As the Big Ben chimed twice, the streets of London were filled with unrest, along with every city in around half the nations in the world. The befuddled governments with barely any idea what this DDLC was nevertheless declared a global emergency -- armies and police forces around the world were deployed to confiscate the buttons to prevent any chance of thousands of manic killers suddenly popping into reality. Countries were suspicious of each other, some were internally blaming other countries, but still they all managed to work with each other in what would be called the greatest achievement in diplomacy to tally up the number of buttons they've collected.

The general consensus was clear: despite how miraculous the circumstance is, it's not worth having people killed. If everyone could manage to hold themselves back for just 24 hours, this ridiculous crisis would be over and this button would merely be a weird blip in world history.

"Right Agis, let's hope there's only 538 people in the whole of Serres who've played this game."

Closing the trailer filled with stacks of the mysterious buttons, officer Sotiria, head of the Serres team for the operation, signaled the truck driver to roll out of the stadium grounds. It will head to Thessaloniki where representatives will confirm the count with the central government in Athens. If they could hit the 100,000 mark, then perhaps Greece would've completed its part in this emergency.

"I did hope we'll get to handle something more than just murder and robbery. Never thought it'll come to this. Catch."

Agis tossed Sotiria a bottled water. She caught it and immediately unscrewed the cap. It had been a long evening for both of them and their team; they had been making rounds in the streets, reading out the abridged plot of DDLC and calling for people to give up their Monika button. It was a really weird day.

"How did all of this even happen? What, is this magic?" Sotiria leaned herself against a folding table, placed under a canopy tent set up hastily just that afternoon as the local police's makeshift base of operation.

"That's the best anyone can come up with," shrugged Agis, staring off onto the empty seats lit by the stadium's floodlight. "Or aliens."

"I thought if there are some otherworldly lifeforms out there, they'd show up with spaceships and the like. But popping up buttons? For a free game from years ago?"

"To be fair, it's a quite alright game."

"Is it now?" she scoffed. "You played it?"

"When it first came out, yeah," he said before taking another sip of water. "It's... shocking. Interesting. It's a short game, but I enjoyed it."

"So what's the deal with this Monika girl, really?"

"Well," he sighed and paused to recall his facts, "Monika's kinda like the bad guy in this game -- this dating sim game, or at least it pretends to be. She was self-aware, and she found out that she's in a game, so she flipped out. Started killing, deleting, the other people to have you talk to her, to just Monika." He stifled a tiny laugh, remembering his panicked reaction when he first came across that line.

"So she's, like, a psycho then?" she asked, her tone hinting a pinch of curiosity.

"Ehh... kinda. She herself was really suffering in the game, and by the end of it she did regret everything. I think she's pretty tragic."

"Sounds pretty weak for a redemption. But I guess if she did become real, you'd be okay then."

"I suppose so, yeah."

A moment of silence followed as the two digested everything they'd talked about. This wasn't even some random trivia from an old game; technically, it's pertinent information for their operation. This was a terribly weird day.

"Welp," Sotiria broke the silence and pushed herself from the desk, "let's pack up and report back to the station. I really need a drink after this."

"Yeah, me too. You want to hit the bar?"

"Nah, it's fine, I've got some cans at home," she declined, followed with a slow "oh" from Agis. "Maybe I could take some time tonight to play this damned game. You said it's short?"

"It's a visual novel so there's a lot of reading, but you could blaze through it in about 3 hours."

"Alright then."

A taxi pulled over to the side of a narrow road in Kato Metochi, roughly three miles north of Serres. Agis handed the driver a 20-euro note before unsteadily stepping out of the car and towards the gate of his house. He was sure he did not drink all that much, but his mind was telling him otherwise. Fumbling with the gate lock, he made his way to his front door.

'Where my bloody keys at?' he thought while his right hand reached for his pocket. He got to pull out a bunch of keys and his phone. It was 1:36 in the morning, and there was a message from the police group. As he tried to push the key into the doorknob, he read the message.

"What the hell?" From the haze in his mind, Agis responded in confusion. As he walked into his home, he read the message several more times.

Then the realization hit him. That, and a figure that he unknowingly walked into.

"A... Agisilaos? Is that you?"

His eyes burst open, his body frozen in place. The fact that there's a stranger in his house was one thing, but the intruder was too characteristic: the uniform, the thigh highs, the flowing auburn hair held by a large white bow, and the emerald green eyes staring back at him quizzically.

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